Brickbat: Everyone's a Critic

Police in Cambridge, England, sent the department helicopter and 10 officers to break up a garden party after someone complained the music was too loud and they heard people saying anti-Islamic things. Cops seized a karaoke machine and a cellphone and are investigating the partygoers for racial offenses. One person who attended the party said they were playing the "Bin Laden Song," which mocks the death of the terrorist leader.

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I expect the opposite, since cops much love their overtime and much hate dealing with real criminals with real weapons. What’s not to like about acting tough and manly while knowing it’s just some dumbass panic over a song?

You guys just don’t get it. The officer didn’t just take offense. She took offense for an entire nation. Kind of like Jesus with our sins. That song was literally (I mean, clitorally) an attack on Britain via Islamaphobia (even though it was mocking one of the most vile fuckheads in human history). Unnerstan?

He said: “We was having a summer’s evening in my neighbour’s garden as we don’t have one. We had our karaoke machine on playing music through our phones from YouTube which are all approved songs.

What the hell is an “approved song”. Does he just mean that if YouTube hasn’t been forced to censor a song, then it must be okay to play? Yet another example of why we should defend the 1st Amendment against even the slightest attacks.

Really? A Panic Button? She couldn’t actually speak into a radio and accurately describe the assault by sound waves? Perhaps the backup could have been just one more officer with ear plugs, and a copy of the Magna Carta.

So what is the Libertarian response? Arrest the complaining neighbor for misdemeanor stupid? Bill them for the full expense for not first asking to have the volume lowered?